Some serious reading for the weekend

by OldandBlue

22 comments
  1. Potato in Italy is also slang for pussy therefore this book could also be about femme fatales making their way through politics secretly administering realms and empires.

  2. surely this guy favourite book

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  3. It was an absolute gamechancer for Europe.

    It yielded two to four times more calories per acre than staple grain crops and offered more vitamins and micronutrients. Potatoes are frost-resistant and can be stored underground. They come out of the field ready to be eaten, not requiring the processing that grain needs. Extras could be fed to livestock, making meat more accessible to peasants.

    This had the effect of population growth and fueled the industrial revolution and colonialism.

  4. We considering how influential the potato was in helping Northern Europe grow and eventually surpass Southern Europe its probably quite interesting.

  5. Blurb:

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  6. Is it good?
    Looks like a great birthday present for a friend who does his PHD with potatoes.

  7. Why shouldn’t it? It has become a staple food for huge parts of the world. Enabeling their development.

    Potato famine was a stab for the alreadyIrish UK relations.

    Fries were essential for the Burger/fast food craze in the 20th century.

    Sounds fascinating! Only boring/ignorant/naive/stupid people could think of this as being boring.

    *”finding something boring doesn’t speak for the subject to be boring, but the mind engaging in it.”*

    A typical case of judging a book by its cover.

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